{"id":406363,"date":"2026-01-14T09:31:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/406363\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T09:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:31:18","slug":"at-least-800000-americans-are-opting-out-of-obamacare-as-healthcare-costs-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/406363\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 800,000 Americans are opting out of Obamacare as healthcare costs soar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published: Jan. 13, 2026 at 10:09\u202fa.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"e1bc1vag0 css-1dqcy4b-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" font-size=\"16\">It appears that about 830,000 Americans are no longer using Obamacare this year after the expiration of subsidies that made those health plans far more affordable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"e1bc1vag0 css-1dqcy4b-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" font-size=\"16\">About <a data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/newsroom\/fact-sheets\/marketplace-2026-open-enrollment-period-report-national-snapshot-0#AnchorOne\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-1y1y9ag-OverridedLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">22.8 million<\/a> people in the U.S. signed up for a marketplace health-insurance plan for 2026 as of Jan. 3, according to the latest update from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. A year ago, the CMS said <a data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/nearly-24-million-consumers-have-selected-affordable-health-coverage-aca-marketplace-time-left\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-1y1y9ag-OverridedLink\">23.6 million<\/a> consumers had registered for an Affordable Care Act plan as of Jan. 4, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: Jan. 13, 2026 at 10:09\u202fa.m. ET It appears that about 830,000 Americans are no longer using Obamacare&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[1075,161231,1904,793,97,252,161757,253,9042,26675,77391,161756,20724,20716,111,161230,14814,1247,47618,20719,14882,47619],"class_list":["post-406363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-community","tag-domestic-politics","tag-financial-services","tag-general-news","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-health-medical-insurance","tag-healthcare","tag-insurance","tag-international-relations","tag-medical-insurance","tag-non-life-insurance","tag-political","tag-political-general-news","tag-politics","tag-politics-international-relations","tag-social-services","tag-society","tag-society-community","tag-synd","tag-welfare","tag-welfare-social-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}